Death of Zina Linnik: The Violent Immigrant & Failure of the System
It is with very sad news that 12-year-old Tacoma girl Zina Linnik was found dead today, ending a week-long search after her July 4 abduction that drew national attention. The body was found somewhere in Pierce County.
Zina, one of eight children in her family, was abducted from an alley behind the family's home the night of July 4, police said.
About 9:45 p.m. that night, her father, Mikhail Linnik, heard a scream, according to a police report. When he went to the alley, he saw an Asian man get into a gray van parked nearby and drive off, the report says.
The investigation led officers to 42-year-old Terapon Dang Adhahn, who drove a gray van with recently-changed license plates registered to another car. State Department of Corrections records say Adhahn is an Asian-Pacific Islander.
The surprise here is that Adhahn was just arrested Monday (July 9) on an unrelated immigration matter and was charged with failing to register as a sex offender. It seems that way back in 1990, he was charged with violently raping a 16-year-old relative. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree incest in exchange for completing 60 months of sexual-deviancy counseling.
During an evaluation in August 1990, Adhahn told a therapist he'd been sexually molested countless times by an older brother when he was between the ages of 7 and 9 years old, according to court records. He also said his biological father was an abusive alcoholic.
The therapist called Adhahn's personality profile "extremely problematic." But by the time Adhahn completed sex offender treatment in 1997, his counselor wrote that he had made adequate progress and was actively involved in weekly group therapy.
But was the therapist correct in his analysis. Could it be that Adhahn was just pretending to be well again?
But it would seem that he was a permanent resident [corrected] at the time. In fact, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Adhahn should have been deported to his home country after he served his 60 months sentence. Federal law mandates that all aliens convicted of felonies be deported to their home country.
It is clear that he will be charged with the death of Zina Linnik. He provided information to police which led them to the girl's body. Also in his Tacoma home, police found girls underwear and other items, which they said are being tested.
For most immigrants living around Tacoma, it's a betrayal of their code where you work hard, you get ahead, and you contribute.
Michelle Malkin - Kidnapping and murder of Zina Linnik
The second surprise part is that he's a registered voter, but he shouldn't be, right?
Seattle Times - Police seek to tie other cases to girl's death
Modesto Bee - Wash. case brings review of missing kids
Comments
Posted by: Grampa D
Posted on: July 14, 2007 01:21 AM
The title of this blog suggests an ulterior motive by the author, an agenda distracting from the real problem; that a child has been murdered and her murderer is a known sex offender with a history of violent behavior. The problem is not that the suspect is an illegal alien as the title infers. The problem is that the suspect was allowed to go free on one, ONE, person's recommendation and that person probably had a personal stake in the decision. That person would be the counselor who declared that the suspect had shown favorable signs of rehabilitation.
Why would the counselor make such an obviously wrong statement? I submit it's because he/she didn't want to look bad. He/she didn't want his/her superiors to think his/her counseling was ineffective.
What is needed in cases such as this is second and third opinions from different experts who don't know each other.
The counselor who recommended the suspect's release is as guilty of this crime as the perpretator.
Posted by: AZ Desert Rat
Posted on: July 15, 2007 12:42 AM
The problem in this case is twofold: 1) The alleged suspect was convicted of a previous sex offense...incest, and 2) he IS an illegal alien and was NOT DEPORTED, after his conviction and his "completion" of sexual deviancy counseling!
There is something seriously wrong with this case!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to not be doing their job! There is a lack of communication between our goverment entities...and that, I am afraid will lead to some dangerous and deadly atrocities inflicted on the American citizens by the terrorists!
This poor little girl was slaughtered due to the incompetency of the courts, the counselors and the US government! Shame of them!
Posted by: Edmund
Posted on: July 15, 2007 03:43 PM
Something is seriously wrong. Apparently their are getting more and more sickos out there that are dangerous. We should ban arms for good!